• Deestan@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Real conversation, not exaggerated. Actually slightly toned down:

    “We offer a competitive salary! It’s $number!”

    “I have 2 offers 10% higher, from a shipping company and a finance company, in the same city”

    “We don’t compete with the finance and shipping sectors”

    “And 15% higher in one of the consultancies”

    “We don’t compete with consultancies either”

    (I think I’m going to put Reigninh Monarch of Norway on my CV. I just don’t compete with King Harald.)

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      19 hours ago

      LOL I hope you told them “Dude you ARE competing with those companies for my skills, so are you in or not?” It’s really that simple.

      At one interview I wasn’t really sure about my answer to a question, so after giving it I asked how they would do it, and the guy who asked said, “Well, I’m not the one being interviewed.” I kept my mouth shut because I really liked everybody else I had talked to, but I wanted to go all Jules on the guy like, “Oh yes you are, Brett, yes you are!” Some employers don’t get that an applicant is also interviewing them (at least I always was).